Motif
missed opportunity leading to destructive remorse
missed_opportunity_leading_to_destructive_remorse
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE. / BOOK I. / END OF THE STORY ON HOLDING TO THE TRUTH. / END OF THE STORY OF THE SANDY ROAD.; lines 8039-8169 confidence: high
The covetous hawker returns, asks for the dish, learns a just dealer has given a thousand for it, laments the lost golden pot, scatters his goods and money, seizes his yoke as a club, and pursues the Bodisat.
The greedy dealer loses the golden vessel through his own deception and is overcome by grief that ends in his death.
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